The caption writer on the Globe and Mail's "Celebrity Photos of the Week" department has some trenchant political fun with the feature. Opening with a picture of the mass demonstrations still rocking Quebec, the writer notes "Thousands of Quebec students march through Montreal to protest university tuition fee hikes. Oh wait. Sorry about that, English Canada. You didn't come here to look at a bunch of self-centred, entitled people who don't know the value of a dollar and obviously crave attention. I don't know what I was thinking. You have no time for those kind of people."

Of course, the rest of the slideshow is of celebs holding fancy handbags flashing prosthetic dentistry attending red carpet events ("Cannes jury member Diane Kruger hits the Cannes red carpet last week in a dress that hardly resembles at all something Marie Antoinette would have worn") interspersed with protesters getting forcibly taken down and arrested in Montreal, creating an imaginary dialog with the celebs ("Zac, this is a bad person with misguided values. According to some, this Quebecker is no better than a Greek person who lost his job and isn't gracious enough to be pleased that his unemployment is helping Wall Street recover from the 2008 recession").

The Globe's celebrity photo caption-writer does this sort of thing regularly, but this is the best to date.

Brilliant. Mainichi Shimbun used to have an English translator who made every article a pleasure to read. And then somebody ratted him out to the editors, he was fired, comments were closed for months and every translation was done by a robot programmed to maximize tedium. I wonder if this person will keep his/her job after this.

Change the link from https to http and those warnings will melt away. All or many of the images on the page are being pulled in via http, which contributes to the 200 or so warnings Chrome generates.

Since you’re using Chrome, you can check the errors by pressing F12 and then clicking the little yellow logo with an exclamation mark in the bottom right. You can do this without responding to the security warning. It’s boring reading, but it’ll show you what’s bothering the browser.

Seriously, it’s one of the highlights of my week. Last week was all about the Eurovision contest: “Trackshittaz. That is the name of the band representing Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest: Trackshittaz. Furthermore, their song is called “Woki Mit Deim Popo.””

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Zac, this is a bad person with misguided values. According to some, this Quebecker is no better than a Greek person who lost his job and isn’t gracious enough to be pleased that his unemployment is helping Wall Street recover from the 2008 recession.